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writing hair fire
Prowling about the rooms, sitting down, getting up, stirring the fire, looking out the window, teasing my hair, sitting down to write, writing nothing, writing something and tearing it up... Charles Dickens
writing numbers gold
Genius, in one respect, is like gold; numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither. Charles Caleb Colton
writing language nonsense
It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in languages that are living.
writing men profound
He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.
writing faces privacy
The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.
writing men three
There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible men to read it.
writing should-have fire
We should have a glorious conflagration, if all who cannot put fire into their works would only consent to put their works into the fire.
writing self hints
The awkwardness and embarrassment which all feel on beginning to write, when they themselves are the theme, ought to serve as a hint to author's that self is a subject they ought very rarely to descant upon.
writing two style
When I meet with any persons who write obscurely or converse confusedly, I am apt to suspect two things; first, that such persons do not understand themselves; and secondly, that they are not worthy of being understood by others.
library democracy portal
Freedom is found through the portals of our nation's libraries. David McCullough
library television film
Film, television and to a certain extent, theater are modern day libraries. David Strathairn
library librarian democratic
A democratic society depends upon an informed and educated citizenry. Thomas Jefferson
library fairy-tale tales
I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library. Beverly Cleary
library stories shelves
...we are all a volume on the shelf of the... library, a story unto ourselves, never possibly described with one word or even very accurately with thousands. Deb Caletti
library democracy matter
When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too. Bill Moyers
library needs definitions
County library? Reference desk, please. Hello? Yes, I need a word definition. Well, that's the problem. I don't know how to spell it and I'm not allowed to say it. Could you just rattle off all the swear words you know and I'll stop you when...Hello? Bill Watterson
library
We're going to get a new library here. Bud Schmidt
library shelter muse
To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. Barbara Tuchman
eras ends harder
He kissed me hard and I kissed him back harder, like it was the end of an era that had lasted all of my life. Cheryl Strayed
eras conception
Nothing so dates an era as its conception of the future. Brian Eno
eras virtue old-fashioned
In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
eras cosmos spirit
We are living through a remarkably privileged era, when certain deep truths about the cosmos are still within reach of the human spirit of exploration. Brian Greene
eras deities chaos
When chaos is the god of an era, clamorous music is the deity's chief instrument. Ben Okri
eras borders ends
The stage has been reached where our armed forces should withdraw beyond the borders It's not the end. It's the start of a new era. Abdullah Ocalan
erase everywhere except people power states united
People seem to know about May Day everywhere except where it began, here in the United States of America. That's because those in power have done everything they can to erase its real meaning. Noam Chomsky
erase erased margins simply
The margins don't get erased by simply insisting that the powers-that-be erase them. Greg Boyle
erase hoped initially rise stocks street today wall wave
Today we initially hoped that stocks would rise and erase yesterday's losses, but Wall Street triggered a new wave of profit-taking.